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Chicago examiner saturday Chicago february 21 1914 saturday vol xii no 53 a m refiatei'cd in u s patent offiet price one cent g-gj-fc^g kaiser passes on reply to dewey by von diederichs admiral of german fleet breaks silence of 15 years charges american navy head failed to proclaim manila blockade imperial government strives to calm uproar but von bern storff may be advised to act informally at washington special cable to the examiner beulin feb angered at what he considers a biased and unfair attack on bis professional record admiral vou l.'iederichs has decided to break the si lence be has maintained for fifteen years and make an open reply to admiral dewey's assertions although published as a personal state ment it will have a decidedly official character and authority for it will be submitted before publication to the im perial admiralty to the head of the kaiser's naval cabiuet admiral vou mud lei and ipresumbaly to the kaiser per sonally the correspondent of the chi j cago examiner has official authority for | the statement that admiral von j dlederlcbs in taking this radical step is acting not only with the i full kuowledgt and approval but with j the actual encouragement of high of â– ficials of both naval and civil govern j ment conference in high quartets at the time when the dewey publics j tons first came to the attention of the ! imperial government there was a long j i'uttion ic high quarters it was anally decided tbat the best i bray to get an authentic german version nf the manila episode before the ainer i lean public and at the same time demon ! strate germany's wish uot to let an old historical dispute cloud its cordial rela tions with the united states was to allow a reply to come from von dieder i'-bs personally while the text of the statement is be ing carefully kept secret it is under stood that it will deal exhaustively with the international legal situation develop ing in manila bay and seek to prove that the blame for whatever mistakes may have been committed there rests not with the germans but with dewey for his failure to proclaim and maintain a proper blockade bernstorff may act there ls a manifest disposition iu offi cial circles to avoid anything which might give an unpleasant tinge to the discus sion of the dewey article the parliamentary inquiry which evoked admiral von tlrpitz's brief allusion to the matter in the reichstag last evening was wholly ignored by the newspapers closest to the government deputy heckscher of hamburg speak ing in the reichstag to-day said it was impossible tbat the cordial relations be tween the two countries should be in any way affected by such an incident certain other members however were undoubtedly inclined to resent dewey's statement whether von tirpitz's casual reference to the matter will have the in tended effect of side-tracking any formal interpellation with debate iu the open house is a questiou at the foreign office the Chicago ex aminer correspondent was informed to day that no official notice is being taken of the dewey publications althugh there is a distinct possibility that ambassador von bernstorff may take some wholly in formal action at washington german defends dewey captain l ivrsus a retired naval of fleer who was in command of one of von im-di-richs cruisers at manila proved to-day that dewey will not be without de fenders in uie german camp l was present during every phase of .... developments at manila bay said aptali i'cisiis to day t the examiner correspondent and i came into frequent tmtact with dewey who was in almost illy communication with my chief von iledericiis my opinion is that dewey probably lias good grounds for his state ments there can be little doubt that there were serious mistakes on the ger man side at manila von diederlchs is d capable officer and a man of sound cool judgment but at that time he was a sick man nervous and tired from worry and hie climate there undoubt edly were errors made in the conduct of our ships washington feb 20 â€” admiral dewey declined to night to reply to the attack mode upon him yesterday in hi german parliament for bis written rriti clsm of the german fleet during the span ish war i have nothing to say at this time be jald i stand by my book bandits kill three wound four others in holdup of train i passengers battle with despera does men escape with 60 seattle feb 20 international liui ] ited train no 5s of the great northern j hallway was held op at sammisb ten miles south of bellingbam near lhc inler | national boundary at 7 u0 o'clock this j evening and seven passengers iu oue of | the day couches resisting rubbery at the lauds of the two bandits were shot three j of theni dying immediately the dead t s wadswoktii canadian pacific j hallway conduct or of vancouver is c r l i.ee of bremerton wash ! m u m'elves salesman for an auto mobile tire concern of vancouver the three passengers closed in on oue of the two bandits at one end of the car while the other desperado stoud guard at the other end they overpowered the man anu had him down ou the floor and were hold ing him when his accomplice approached j and began shooting them all three died in a few minutes more than a dozen shots were fired as soon as the bandit hud been liberated j he pulled the bellcord and the train stopped the two desperadoes escaping into the brush they obtained ouly flit the holdup men boarded the train at burlington and put on their masks two white handkerchiefs in the vestibule they were young men the international limited which runs from portland to vancouver b c mak | ing stops only at principal cities left â– seattle this afternoon at 4:35 o'clock a special train bearing assistant chief special agent james j davis and special agent lee tignor and a posse of railway j detectives left seattle to-night for the j scene of the holdup the great northern management to j night offered 10,000 reward for the cap ture of the two bandits change seethes over phantom stock sale joker starts pandemonium with missouri pacific preferred 'â– new yokk feb 20 trading on the j | new yoi-k stock exchange fell to a low j ebb to-day al times prices stood still in the tee erowd thai normally nam 1 75 to 208 witts reduced to uireo b towards the close some waggish members started ueavy trading in missouri pacific preferred and some of the newer mem bers were supplied with orders at the market which they attempted to exe cute in the midst of a howling mob that gave the visitors in the gallery the im pression the market was boiling lt was not until the gong struck that the novice discovered that no such slock existed j and that all the orders were fakes thaw on broadway but only in movies federal court for first time per mits taking of pictures c'oxcokd x h feb jo harry k thaw will be back on broadway next week that is in the movies for the first time in the history of the united states courts judge aldrieh to-day al lowed mi operator to make lilius during the habeas corpus proceedings instituted by thaw for the purpose of being ad mitted to bail thaw seemed to enjoy it as did judge aldrieh while william travers jerome was indignant bharati famous swami dies in india special cable to the examiner london feb 20 news was received to-night from calcutta of the death of kaba premiuteud bhaiuti the celebrated swami who lived for ten years in new york and i.os angeles where his preach ing of hindu philosophy gained him many followers he was also well known in the american colony here extra ilffl killed another shot bypuein battles to death with cracksmen at fullerton and spauld ing avenues catches them at work dying thief murmurs that his name is joe owens partner escapes policeman daniel mikula of the shakespeare avenue station shot and killed one safeblower and wounded an other in a revolver buttle in the street at fullerton and spaulding avenues earl | to-day more than twenty shots were fired and i many of the residents in the vicinity were i aroused the policeman fought the rob ; bers from behind a tree the man who was wounded escaped the robbers were discovered in the schulze brothers laundry 3319-^1 fuller 1 ton avenues by the policeniau they bad blown the safe and the door of the place was open mikula stepped to the door with his revolver iu his hand and ordered the men to surrender attempt to escape instead of complying with the com i maud the men rau to the rear of the j place and jumped through a window ; the policeman followed the men rau j back to fullerton avenue and started : down the street when they reached fullerton avenue '. tin policeman started shooting the rob i bers halted and returned the fire mikula dodged behind a tree and continued the mikula saw and 1 the men stagger } he continued shooting and the second man fell to the sidewalk his compan i lou theu fled the policeman carried lhc prostrate man into nielsen's undertaking rooms at 3315 fullerton avenue here it was found bullets had passed through his left breast and stomach ; joe owens is name mikula then ran out and started in pur suit oc the second man five minutes i after be left the first man died in a j moment of consciousness he muttered his â– name as joe owens the police believe both uieu to be uieui bers of a gang of safe blowers that has been operating ou the northwest * side for several mouths the dead man is believed to be canada joe a well known safe blower the safe of the schultze laundry has been blown three times in the last four months among other recent sale blow ings attributed to the dead man and his companions are the crystal theater and the star theater chokes shark with an oar in sea fight palm beach flu feb ik john e harris vice president of the united states steel company rammed an oar down the throat of a nine-foot shark out in the gulf stream and after a twenty-minute struggle drowned it lie was in a small boat with his negro ours nian mr harris threw a lasso of small rope around the shark tied it to the bout ! while he kept the oar in the throat of j the fish the shark weighed 330 pounds _^^____ â€ž m i joseph u collins ends his life by bullet in hotel i 33d degree mason and spanish war j veteran brooded over separation joseph 1 . collins t;i-p woodlawn ave nue who served through the spanish war as corporal in the fifth Illinois infantry a thirty second degree mason and knight of the maccabees took bis life last night in a room in the hotel morrison by shoot ing himself throngb the month melan cholia is given as the cause and is at tributed to worry over bis divorce a year ago collins lived at the woodlawu avenue address with bis sister he registered under his own name at 5:o0 and an hour later was seen walking nervously through the hallway by mr and mrs j d lie govern whit more lowa who had the j adjoining room half an hour later mrs j ucgovern beard two shots in collins i room and immediately telephoned to frank steals the clerk who entered i the room on the dresser was a slip of paper on ! which he had written his name address and telephone number before shooting i himself woman in college inn with hat ablaze cigaret said to have caused fire feminine diners scream a handsomely gowned woman with her hat ablaze walked luto the college inn at 7 o'clock last night women screamed and men jumped to their feet as she made ber way through the maze of crowded tables a spark either from her own or another woman's cigaret it was said ignited the finery in the women's washroom the woman took her seat unconscious of the excitement she was creating a big plume on her obviously expensive hat smouldered at the point of flame madam your hat is on fire said dr a w waterman who was seated at the next table the woman and her companions jumped ro their feci as she turned her head the burning decora tion brushed into the face of oue of tbcin increasing the geueral excitement napkins were dipped in water glasses and the fire was extinguished the mmm haÂ«-~Â»Â»l uihmbu t w>bftw!ciÃŸjl " demolished by the tire the victim quickly left the restaurant n y society woman robbed of 30,000 jewel thieves make raid on palm beach fla train palm beach fla feb 20 mrs leonard thomas new york society wom an arrived this morning and meeting friends at the breakers showed an empty jewel case saying here i am without anything for the ball she re ports a loss of 30,000 in jewels stolen from her compartment ou tjie train after leaving aiken s c a cuban tobacco man ou the same traiu with mrs thomas was robbed ot 1,500 by a well-dressed stranger after the train had left jacksonville courts girl while police hold father ; suitor hit with club and has her parent arrested samuel wcimess 2003 west jackson boulevard went to the home of elmer jansen at 1654 west seveuty-secoud place thursday night to call ou his nine teen-year-old daughter jauseu hit him over the head with a potato masher last night weimess had jauseu arrest ed he telephoned to the police to be sure and bold jansen as he was going to c-all on his daughter after spending two ' hours iu a cell jansen obtained bail and hiked out for home in an effort to catch â– weimess there â– revolvers alarm 300 at political meeting j four policemen rush in when alderman walkowiak is hissed three hundred men were gathered iu j schiudler's hall milwaukee avenue and ! huron street last night to listen to an j address by alderman walkowiak can didate for rciiomination became excited when four policemen entered with drawn revolvers alderman walkowiak had started his talk and several men began hissing a policeman ordered one to leave he re ] fused and they called for help four ! other policemen entered with revolvers in their hands three men were arrested heavy fog envelops city cars delayed [ fog spread over the southern part of the city late last night nnd at midnight it had reached the downtown district for two hours before that street car and ele vated railroad service in the southern end of the city was delayed greatly street lights could uot be seeu half a block ana f villa kills britisher demandon u.s.to act wilson's policy of watchful waiting is blamed for the j execution of english subject who made protest to rebels washington feb 20 an amazing \ mtuation exists in washington to-night with regard to the killing of william s benton in juarez by order of the mexi can rebel general villa there is every indication tbat secretary 1 of state bryan and the state department have received complete details of the af i j fair if fuis is tnie'ilio are being with i held to prevent the public from obtaining 1 i a truthful account of the tragedy which i seriously involves the united states gov ernment with the government of great britain the state department officials main â€¢ tain that they have received no iufor | nation beyond the confirmation of tho j killing of benton the british embassy has been iu con stant communication with the state de i partment m-night but no light on the extraordinary situation could be obtained i from that source great britain already is antagonistic to i the watchful waiting policy of presi ! dent wilson the killing of one of its subjects puts great britalu in a position to demand immediate action iu mexico i looking toward protectlou of british cili ens the alternative is the lauding or brit i ish troops iu mexico this would mean ' an infraction of the monroe doctrine and international complications between i the united states and great britain so serious is the question that the caw j net to-day discussed the situation every j detail of possible contingencies was gone ' over and intervention was said to have i been freely talked of protest against the incarceration of benton by villa was conveyed to secre tary bryan yesterday by the british kmbassy consul edwards was instruct ed to intercede in his behalf according to news reports the instructions came too late benton having been slain on tuesday benton exchanged blows with villa witness declares el paso feb 20 william s benton j british subject who has been missing since tuesday when he called on general j villa at snaxez lo ask protection for los j bemedlos hacienda his property in mexi | co anil for permission to remove his cat tle to the united states was slain at juarez on that day according to a state i ment made by villa to united stales consul edwards at juarez edwards had instructions from the i state department in washington to de ma nd protection for benton of the cou t stitutionalists general villa informed me that ben j ton called ou him ou february 17 and j that he had been executed that day he said nothing about bentou beiug i tried before a court martial before be i ii iug killed said consul edwards villa i asked me to keep the fact secret from j the press and public but lie gave ine i matter with which to make a report to | the state department he also re i quested me to notify benton's family of j his death consul edwards called on mrs benton j this morning and notified her of her i husband's death mrs benton lives in 81t north oregon street this city a mexican who was present when villa first received bentou told his version of the affair to-night but insisted his name l you can't prove it so says defiant wife of petras aurora sus pect so say also many citizens of aurora emerson hough mrs ameta petras wife of the suspected slayer of theresa hollander who defends her husband declaring they can't prove it on him rjrtcjsjcaxiojral jvarrs author says there is not enough evidence in slaying case yet to convict any one by emerson hough the famous novelist author of the mississippi bubble ih-jto or fight the purchase price john baton and the lady and the pirate i ft he mystery ot the theresa hollander mur der at aurora is more a mystery to-day than it ever has been before officers newspaper men citizens are to-day more ready than they have been at any time heretofore to say that no matter who committed this crime he is not yet known nor apt soon to be known beyond a peradventure if petras the suspect now held be the guilty man his guilt cannot be proven from the evidence now in hand in short the mystery increases almost hour by hour rather than lessens day by day the feeling against petras is still intense but let us remember the first vague resentful desire of vengeance that always comes to the front after a crime of this nature â€” the vengeance of the people in search of a victim of an object a suspect to-day liiore and more it is said that there is little or none of actual evi dence against anthony petras of any sort sufficient to convict him nor does new evidence develop fascinated by the curious features of a mystery more baffling than any with which i ever had to deal either in fact or in fiction i spent the day at aurora going over the scene of this murder and lalking with those persons most in notice in connection with it mystery grows deeper i returned to Chicago knowing less of the theresa hollander murder than when i left Chicago the mystery is more of a mys tery to me than it ever has been it is one thing to ferret out a criminal a la conan doyle â€” to write a story of keen detective work done by a master mind in the story the writer begins with an idea a conclusion a denouement the end of his story is planned in advance and then the facts are fitted to lead up to the conclusion but you cannot handle the theresa hollander murder in any such way as that to take such meager facts as now exist and to build them up to a just conclusion having to do with life and death is quite another matter and here we are not dealing with an exciting story alone but with the solemn factors of life and death and human justice as a matter of act when you come to silt all the facts most damaging to petras there remains but oue of great weight against him that is the charge of the negro hickman that he saw petras turn back from the car racks from the place where he left the car and go toward the p'ac where theresa hollander had left the car instead of going on to his own home in his usual way that fact is damaging the charge cf hickman however is unsupported by any other testimony petras is not even obliged to deny it it is for the state to prove it no witness to crime the evidence of the knife found at the scene of the murder cannot be called conclusive the utterances of the murdered girl or of the suspect in charge are as yet not shown to be clear and conclusive there are no actual witnesses of the actual deed the body of the crime is there the corpus delicti murder has been done beyond a doubt the foulest of murder but no one aw it at this writing it is perhaps truthful to say as the wife of petrat says they cant prove it petras himself and his wife and his wife's mother all know this advantage which they now hold this negative advantage petras is very confident apparently he is the most care-free man in aurora to-day he has not confessed he is not going to hunt new suspect in graveyard slaying i police learn powerfully buil man with bleeding hands and face was seen near cemetery shortly after girl was killed ; anthony petras taken to burial ground at midnight and the death struggle re-enacted by detectives prisoner unshaken a mau with bleeding bands and face ! a man of huge build and yet shrinking manner was scon biding on mondai j night behind a freight car three-quarters of a mile from the spot where theresa hollander was murdered this man is now sought uy the police i anil detectives as the probable murderer when he was seen behind the freight car according to the best obtainable time cs ! timates the unfortunate hollander girl bad been dead less than halt an hour the motive for the murder is now i lieved to have been nothing mote than the maniacal passion tor assault the police do uot believe that the murderer lay in wait for miss hollander they be lieve that she happened to be the v tim because she was the first woman who happened to pass motive not shown j anthony petras is still held he is the i youth who ouce wanted to marry thertsn 1 hollander but who married another he : went home ou the same treet car with ber monday night but efforts to connect him with the murder have failed except ing iu a strained and circumstantial way and the most glaring weakness of the i case against hiu has boon the complete j failure of the authorities to find a motive | no motive bas been suggested that has not been in contradiction of some detail j of the evidence petras is bold he i booked as a sus i pect but no charge lias ben made against him at midnight yesterday in ! a final test of petras conscience he was ! taken to the cemetery where miss hol lander was killed the tragedy .\ is shown to him graphically here she was struck a detective pointed out the place and here we i'ouud her body but petras was unmoved and he was taken back to the jail the detectives are now concentrating ' their efforts upon the new clew two employes of the burlington itailroad com pany sought chief michels late last night i and told him their story he refused j to make public their names but the story j was learned these two men were working in what j is culled the pigeon hill yards on mbu j day night at about 10:30 o'clock or i perhaps a few minutes later they saw a ! man who appeared to be in trouble 1 trying to dress wounds he did nut sec us at first said one of the witnesses we got within fifty i feet of him before he noticed us p - i fore he saw us lie seemed to be troubled mostly about the bloody condition of his hands ami face he was trying to dress his wounds bui when we appeared he crept slowly back as if he were afraid we might chase him my idea was that be might have been held up and robbed and beaten and tbat ! lie was afraid of us thinking we were ilic men who had beaten him i tried to assure him 1 called out to him not to be afraid that we wanted to hol him but be turned and ran away we were both disgusted al that but decided that the lellow didn't need hi ip bince he was able to inn so fast lt didn't occur to cither of as until afterward thai the man might have been afraid because of some crime of his own chief michels has a vague description of the man he is bigger in every way tbau petras and his descrlptiou dues not fit any person known to the hol lander family town hears of visil while using every means available to find the bloody banded man the de tectives are also working on whatevet other data they can get it bad beei planned that the big event of the day should bo the midnight visit to the ceiie â– tery with anthony petras but some how the news traveled all over aurora tbat the prisoner was to be taken to the scene chief michels and .*â€¢ squad of detec did start for the cemetery with the pn oner but found a crowd of near men quo women waitli*c t â€¢> ee how i act the chief dp net aut to sec continued on 4th page ist column continued on 2d page 2d column emerson hough //// uiiiim 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Chicago examiner saturday Chicago february 21 1914 saturday vol xii no 53 a m refiatei'cd in u s patent offiet price one cent g-gj-fc^g kaiser passes on reply to dewey by von diederichs admiral of german fleet breaks silence of 15 years charges american navy head failed to proclaim manila blockade imperial government strives to calm uproar but von bern storff may be advised to act informally at washington special cable to the examiner beulin feb angered at what he considers a biased and unfair attack on bis professional record admiral vou l.'iederichs has decided to break the si lence be has maintained for fifteen years and make an open reply to admiral dewey's assertions although published as a personal state ment it will have a decidedly official character and authority for it will be submitted before publication to the im perial admiralty to the head of the kaiser's naval cabiuet admiral vou mud lei and ipresumbaly to the kaiser per sonally the correspondent of the chi j cago examiner has official authority for | the statement that admiral von j dlederlcbs in taking this radical step is acting not only with the i full kuowledgt and approval but with j the actual encouragement of high of â– ficials of both naval and civil govern j ment conference in high quartets at the time when the dewey publics j tons first came to the attention of the ! imperial government there was a long j i'uttion ic high quarters it was anally decided tbat the best i bray to get an authentic german version nf the manila episode before the ainer i lean public and at the same time demon ! strate germany's wish uot to let an old historical dispute cloud its cordial rela tions with the united states was to allow a reply to come from von dieder i'-bs personally while the text of the statement is be ing carefully kept secret it is under stood that it will deal exhaustively with the international legal situation develop ing in manila bay and seek to prove that the blame for whatever mistakes may have been committed there rests not with the germans but with dewey for his failure to proclaim and maintain a proper blockade bernstorff may act there ls a manifest disposition iu offi cial circles to avoid anything which might give an unpleasant tinge to the discus sion of the dewey article the parliamentary inquiry which evoked admiral von tlrpitz's brief allusion to the matter in the reichstag last evening was wholly ignored by the newspapers closest to the government deputy heckscher of hamburg speak ing in the reichstag to-day said it was impossible tbat the cordial relations be tween the two countries should be in any way affected by such an incident certain other members however were undoubtedly inclined to resent dewey's statement whether von tirpitz's casual reference to the matter will have the in tended effect of side-tracking any formal interpellation with debate iu the open house is a questiou at the foreign office the Chicago ex aminer correspondent was informed to day that no official notice is being taken of the dewey publications althugh there is a distinct possibility that ambassador von bernstorff may take some wholly in formal action at washington german defends dewey captain l ivrsus a retired naval of fleer who was in command of one of von im-di-richs cruisers at manila proved to-day that dewey will not be without de fenders in uie german camp l was present during every phase of .... developments at manila bay said aptali i'cisiis to day t the examiner correspondent and i came into frequent tmtact with dewey who was in almost illy communication with my chief von iledericiis my opinion is that dewey probably lias good grounds for his state ments there can be little doubt that there were serious mistakes on the ger man side at manila von diederlchs is d capable officer and a man of sound cool judgment but at that time he was a sick man nervous and tired from worry and hie climate there undoubt edly were errors made in the conduct of our ships washington feb 20 â€” admiral dewey declined to night to reply to the attack mode upon him yesterday in hi german parliament for bis written rriti clsm of the german fleet during the span ish war i have nothing to say at this time be jald i stand by my book bandits kill three wound four others in holdup of train i passengers battle with despera does men escape with 60 seattle feb 20 international liui ] ited train no 5s of the great northern j hallway was held op at sammisb ten miles south of bellingbam near lhc inler | national boundary at 7 u0 o'clock this j evening and seven passengers iu oue of | the day couches resisting rubbery at the lauds of the two bandits were shot three j of theni dying immediately the dead t s wadswoktii canadian pacific j hallway conduct or of vancouver is c r l i.ee of bremerton wash ! m u m'elves salesman for an auto mobile tire concern of vancouver the three passengers closed in on oue of the two bandits at one end of the car while the other desperado stoud guard at the other end they overpowered the man anu had him down ou the floor and were hold ing him when his accomplice approached j and began shooting them all three died in a few minutes more than a dozen shots were fired as soon as the bandit hud been liberated j he pulled the bellcord and the train stopped the two desperadoes escaping into the brush they obtained ouly flit the holdup men boarded the train at burlington and put on their masks two white handkerchiefs in the vestibule they were young men the international limited which runs from portland to vancouver b c mak | ing stops only at principal cities left â– seattle this afternoon at 4:35 o'clock a special train bearing assistant chief special agent james j davis and special agent lee tignor and a posse of railway j detectives left seattle to-night for the j scene of the holdup the great northern management to j night offered 10,000 reward for the cap ture of the two bandits change seethes over phantom stock sale joker starts pandemonium with missouri pacific preferred 'â– new yokk feb 20 trading on the j | new yoi-k stock exchange fell to a low j ebb to-day al times prices stood still in the tee erowd thai normally nam 1 75 to 208 witts reduced to uireo b towards the close some waggish members started ueavy trading in missouri pacific preferred and some of the newer mem bers were supplied with orders at the market which they attempted to exe cute in the midst of a howling mob that gave the visitors in the gallery the im pression the market was boiling lt was not until the gong struck that the novice discovered that no such slock existed j and that all the orders were fakes thaw on broadway but only in movies federal court for first time per mits taking of pictures c'oxcokd x h feb jo harry k thaw will be back on broadway next week that is in the movies for the first time in the history of the united states courts judge aldrieh to-day al lowed mi operator to make lilius during the habeas corpus proceedings instituted by thaw for the purpose of being ad mitted to bail thaw seemed to enjoy it as did judge aldrieh while william travers jerome was indignant bharati famous swami dies in india special cable to the examiner london feb 20 news was received to-night from calcutta of the death of kaba premiuteud bhaiuti the celebrated swami who lived for ten years in new york and i.os angeles where his preach ing of hindu philosophy gained him many followers he was also well known in the american colony here extra ilffl killed another shot bypuein battles to death with cracksmen at fullerton and spauld ing avenues catches them at work dying thief murmurs that his name is joe owens partner escapes policeman daniel mikula of the shakespeare avenue station shot and killed one safeblower and wounded an other in a revolver buttle in the street at fullerton and spaulding avenues earl | to-day more than twenty shots were fired and i many of the residents in the vicinity were i aroused the policeman fought the rob ; bers from behind a tree the man who was wounded escaped the robbers were discovered in the schulze brothers laundry 3319-^1 fuller 1 ton avenues by the policeniau they bad blown the safe and the door of the place was open mikula stepped to the door with his revolver iu his hand and ordered the men to surrender attempt to escape instead of complying with the com i maud the men rau to the rear of the j place and jumped through a window ; the policeman followed the men rau j back to fullerton avenue and started : down the street when they reached fullerton avenue '. tin policeman started shooting the rob i bers halted and returned the fire mikula dodged behind a tree and continued the mikula saw and 1 the men stagger } he continued shooting and the second man fell to the sidewalk his compan i lou theu fled the policeman carried lhc prostrate man into nielsen's undertaking rooms at 3315 fullerton avenue here it was found bullets had passed through his left breast and stomach ; joe owens is name mikula then ran out and started in pur suit oc the second man five minutes i after be left the first man died in a j moment of consciousness he muttered his â– name as joe owens the police believe both uieu to be uieui bers of a gang of safe blowers that has been operating ou the northwest * side for several mouths the dead man is believed to be canada joe a well known safe blower the safe of the schultze laundry has been blown three times in the last four months among other recent sale blow ings attributed to the dead man and his companions are the crystal theater and the star theater chokes shark with an oar in sea fight palm beach flu feb ik john e harris vice president of the united states steel company rammed an oar down the throat of a nine-foot shark out in the gulf stream and after a twenty-minute struggle drowned it lie was in a small boat with his negro ours nian mr harris threw a lasso of small rope around the shark tied it to the bout ! while he kept the oar in the throat of j the fish the shark weighed 330 pounds _^^____ â€ž m i joseph u collins ends his life by bullet in hotel i 33d degree mason and spanish war j veteran brooded over separation joseph 1 . collins t;i-p woodlawn ave nue who served through the spanish war as corporal in the fifth Illinois infantry a thirty second degree mason and knight of the maccabees took bis life last night in a room in the hotel morrison by shoot ing himself throngb the month melan cholia is given as the cause and is at tributed to worry over bis divorce a year ago collins lived at the woodlawu avenue address with bis sister he registered under his own name at 5:o0 and an hour later was seen walking nervously through the hallway by mr and mrs j d lie govern whit more lowa who had the j adjoining room half an hour later mrs j ucgovern beard two shots in collins i room and immediately telephoned to frank steals the clerk who entered i the room on the dresser was a slip of paper on ! which he had written his name address and telephone number before shooting i himself woman in college inn with hat ablaze cigaret said to have caused fire feminine diners scream a handsomely gowned woman with her hat ablaze walked luto the college inn at 7 o'clock last night women screamed and men jumped to their feet as she made ber way through the maze of crowded tables a spark either from her own or another woman's cigaret it was said ignited the finery in the women's washroom the woman took her seat unconscious of the excitement she was creating a big plume on her obviously expensive hat smouldered at the point of flame madam your hat is on fire said dr a w waterman who was seated at the next table the woman and her companions jumped ro their feci as she turned her head the burning decora tion brushed into the face of oue of tbcin increasing the geueral excitement napkins were dipped in water glasses and the fire was extinguished the mmm haÂ«-~Â»Â»l uihmbu t w>bftw!ciÃŸjl " demolished by the tire the victim quickly left the restaurant n y society woman robbed of 30,000 jewel thieves make raid on palm beach fla train palm beach fla feb 20 mrs leonard thomas new york society wom an arrived this morning and meeting friends at the breakers showed an empty jewel case saying here i am without anything for the ball she re ports a loss of 30,000 in jewels stolen from her compartment ou tjie train after leaving aiken s c a cuban tobacco man ou the same traiu with mrs thomas was robbed ot 1,500 by a well-dressed stranger after the train had left jacksonville courts girl while police hold father ; suitor hit with club and has her parent arrested samuel wcimess 2003 west jackson boulevard went to the home of elmer jansen at 1654 west seveuty-secoud place thursday night to call ou his nine teen-year-old daughter jauseu hit him over the head with a potato masher last night weimess had jauseu arrest ed he telephoned to the police to be sure and bold jansen as he was going to c-all on his daughter after spending two ' hours iu a cell jansen obtained bail and hiked out for home in an effort to catch â– weimess there â– revolvers alarm 300 at political meeting j four policemen rush in when alderman walkowiak is hissed three hundred men were gathered iu j schiudler's hall milwaukee avenue and ! huron street last night to listen to an j address by alderman walkowiak can didate for rciiomination became excited when four policemen entered with drawn revolvers alderman walkowiak had started his talk and several men began hissing a policeman ordered one to leave he re ] fused and they called for help four ! other policemen entered with revolvers in their hands three men were arrested heavy fog envelops city cars delayed [ fog spread over the southern part of the city late last night nnd at midnight it had reached the downtown district for two hours before that street car and ele vated railroad service in the southern end of the city was delayed greatly street lights could uot be seeu half a block ana f villa kills britisher demandon u.s.to act wilson's policy of watchful waiting is blamed for the j execution of english subject who made protest to rebels washington feb 20 an amazing \ mtuation exists in washington to-night with regard to the killing of william s benton in juarez by order of the mexi can rebel general villa there is every indication tbat secretary 1 of state bryan and the state department have received complete details of the af i j fair if fuis is tnie'ilio are being with i held to prevent the public from obtaining 1 i a truthful account of the tragedy which i seriously involves the united states gov ernment with the government of great britain the state department officials main â€¢ tain that they have received no iufor | nation beyond the confirmation of tho j killing of benton the british embassy has been iu con stant communication with the state de i partment m-night but no light on the extraordinary situation could be obtained i from that source great britain already is antagonistic to i the watchful waiting policy of presi ! dent wilson the killing of one of its subjects puts great britalu in a position to demand immediate action iu mexico i looking toward protectlou of british cili ens the alternative is the lauding or brit i ish troops iu mexico this would mean ' an infraction of the monroe doctrine and international complications between i the united states and great britain so serious is the question that the caw j net to-day discussed the situation every j detail of possible contingencies was gone ' over and intervention was said to have i been freely talked of protest against the incarceration of benton by villa was conveyed to secre tary bryan yesterday by the british kmbassy consul edwards was instruct ed to intercede in his behalf according to news reports the instructions came too late benton having been slain on tuesday benton exchanged blows with villa witness declares el paso feb 20 william s benton j british subject who has been missing since tuesday when he called on general j villa at snaxez lo ask protection for los j bemedlos hacienda his property in mexi | co anil for permission to remove his cat tle to the united states was slain at juarez on that day according to a state i ment made by villa to united stales consul edwards at juarez edwards had instructions from the i state department in washington to de ma nd protection for benton of the cou t stitutionalists general villa informed me that ben j ton called ou him ou february 17 and j that he had been executed that day he said nothing about bentou beiug i tried before a court martial before be i ii iug killed said consul edwards villa i asked me to keep the fact secret from j the press and public but lie gave ine i matter with which to make a report to | the state department he also re i quested me to notify benton's family of j his death consul edwards called on mrs benton j this morning and notified her of her i husband's death mrs benton lives in 81t north oregon street this city a mexican who was present when villa first received bentou told his version of the affair to-night but insisted his name l you can't prove it so says defiant wife of petras aurora sus pect so say also many citizens of aurora emerson hough mrs ameta petras wife of the suspected slayer of theresa hollander who defends her husband declaring they can't prove it on him rjrtcjsjcaxiojral jvarrs author says there is not enough evidence in slaying case yet to convict any one by emerson hough the famous novelist author of the mississippi bubble ih-jto or fight the purchase price john baton and the lady and the pirate i ft he mystery ot the theresa hollander mur der at aurora is more a mystery to-day than it ever has been before officers newspaper men citizens are to-day more ready than they have been at any time heretofore to say that no matter who committed this crime he is not yet known nor apt soon to be known beyond a peradventure if petras the suspect now held be the guilty man his guilt cannot be proven from the evidence now in hand in short the mystery increases almost hour by hour rather than lessens day by day the feeling against petras is still intense but let us remember the first vague resentful desire of vengeance that always comes to the front after a crime of this nature â€” the vengeance of the people in search of a victim of an object a suspect to-day liiore and more it is said that there is little or none of actual evi dence against anthony petras of any sort sufficient to convict him nor does new evidence develop fascinated by the curious features of a mystery more baffling than any with which i ever had to deal either in fact or in fiction i spent the day at aurora going over the scene of this murder and lalking with those persons most in notice in connection with it mystery grows deeper i returned to Chicago knowing less of the theresa hollander murder than when i left Chicago the mystery is more of a mys tery to me than it ever has been it is one thing to ferret out a criminal a la conan doyle â€” to write a story of keen detective work done by a master mind in the story the writer begins with an idea a conclusion a denouement the end of his story is planned in advance and then the facts are fitted to lead up to the conclusion but you cannot handle the theresa hollander murder in any such way as that to take such meager facts as now exist and to build them up to a just conclusion having to do with life and death is quite another matter and here we are not dealing with an exciting story alone but with the solemn factors of life and death and human justice as a matter of act when you come to silt all the facts most damaging to petras there remains but oue of great weight against him that is the charge of the negro hickman that he saw petras turn back from the car racks from the place where he left the car and go toward the p'ac where theresa hollander had left the car instead of going on to his own home in his usual way that fact is damaging the charge cf hickman however is unsupported by any other testimony petras is not even obliged to deny it it is for the state to prove it no witness to crime the evidence of the knife found at the scene of the murder cannot be called conclusive the utterances of the murdered girl or of the suspect in charge are as yet not shown to be clear and conclusive there are no actual witnesses of the actual deed the body of the crime is there the corpus delicti murder has been done beyond a doubt the foulest of murder but no one aw it at this writing it is perhaps truthful to say as the wife of petrat says they cant prove it petras himself and his wife and his wife's mother all know this advantage which they now hold this negative advantage petras is very confident apparently he is the most care-free man in aurora to-day he has not confessed he is not going to hunt new suspect in graveyard slaying i police learn powerfully buil man with bleeding hands and face was seen near cemetery shortly after girl was killed ; anthony petras taken to burial ground at midnight and the death struggle re-enacted by detectives prisoner unshaken a mau with bleeding bands and face ! a man of huge build and yet shrinking manner was scon biding on mondai j night behind a freight car three-quarters of a mile from the spot where theresa hollander was murdered this man is now sought uy the police i anil detectives as the probable murderer when he was seen behind the freight car according to the best obtainable time cs ! timates the unfortunate hollander girl bad been dead less than halt an hour the motive for the murder is now i lieved to have been nothing mote than the maniacal passion tor assault the police do uot believe that the murderer lay in wait for miss hollander they be lieve that she happened to be the v tim because she was the first woman who happened to pass motive not shown j anthony petras is still held he is the i youth who ouce wanted to marry thertsn 1 hollander but who married another he : went home ou the same treet car with ber monday night but efforts to connect him with the murder have failed except ing iu a strained and circumstantial way and the most glaring weakness of the i case against hiu has boon the complete j failure of the authorities to find a motive | no motive bas been suggested that has not been in contradiction of some detail j of the evidence petras is bold he i booked as a sus i pect but no charge lias ben made against him at midnight yesterday in ! a final test of petras conscience he was ! taken to the cemetery where miss hol lander was killed the tragedy .\ is shown to him graphically here she was struck a detective pointed out the place and here we i'ouud her body but petras was unmoved and he was taken back to the jail the detectives are now concentrating ' their efforts upon the new clew two employes of the burlington itailroad com pany sought chief michels late last night i and told him their story he refused j to make public their names but the story j was learned these two men were working in what j is culled the pigeon hill yards on mbu j day night at about 10:30 o'clock or i perhaps a few minutes later they saw a ! man who appeared to be in trouble 1 trying to dress wounds he did nut sec us at first said one of the witnesses we got within fifty i feet of him before he noticed us p - i fore he saw us lie seemed to be troubled mostly about the bloody condition of his hands ami face he was trying to dress his wounds bui when we appeared he crept slowly back as if he were afraid we might chase him my idea was that be might have been held up and robbed and beaten and tbat ! lie was afraid of us thinking we were ilic men who had beaten him i tried to assure him 1 called out to him not to be afraid that we wanted to hol him but be turned and ran away we were both disgusted al that but decided that the lellow didn't need hi ip bince he was able to inn so fast lt didn't occur to cither of as until afterward thai the man might have been afraid because of some crime of his own chief michels has a vague description of the man he is bigger in every way tbau petras and his descrlptiou dues not fit any person known to the hol lander family town hears of visil while using every means available to find the bloody banded man the de tectives are also working on whatevet other data they can get it bad beei planned that the big event of the day should bo the midnight visit to the ceiie â– tery with anthony petras but some how the news traveled all over aurora tbat the prisoner was to be taken to the scene chief michels and .*â€¢ squad of detec did start for the cemetery with the pn oner but found a crowd of near men quo women waitli*c t â€¢> ee how i act the chief dp net aut to sec continued on 4th page ist column continued on 2d page 2d column emerson hough //// uiiiim 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